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Definition: one-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party (with dislike of any others); N: strong supporter of a party; guerrilla

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Sentences Containing 'partisan'

I became his zealous partisan, and contributed all I could to raise a party in his favour, and we combated for him a while with some hopes of success.

The Soviet offensive was aided by partisan attacks behind the German lines.

Meanwhile, German defensive efforts were hampered by partisan attacks to their communications and rail supply lines.

The non-partisan FactCheck.org criticized some of his comments, saying the President had "played loose with the facts".

However, the newspaper ultimately became non-partisan.

It is a non-profit organization that has no partisan, ideological, religious, or commercial affiliations.

1,941 m. Here the partisan crowd began to settle.

Most of the Bukovina Székelys managed to flee to Transdanubia before the vengeful Yugoslav partisan forces arrived, but again, they lost all of their property.

"This is the promoting of partisan, one-sided political attitudes which frankly don't serve the interests of anyone who is seriously interested in human rights."

All city offices are technically non-partisan.

In partisan elections for the Washington State Legislature and United States Congress, nearly all elections are won by Democrats.

He was an editor of "Partisan Review" and later the literary critic of "The Atlantic Monthly" magazine.

The "Bergamo" Division took part in Operation Alba which was an anti Partisan operations in Croatia carried out on the 12 August to he 2 September 1942, to destroy partisan groups in the Biokovo area 40 to 50 kilometres east of Split.

In 1944, he joined the ranks of a local Home Army partisan unit, taking part in Operation Tempest and Operation Ostra Brama.

In 1948 he finished his memoirs of his partisan years ("Rojsty"), but the book was not published until 1956.

These armies were set up to perform resistance, partisan, and guerrilla activities in the event of Soviet invasion; equivalent units were set up by other NATO members in their states.

Vatinius was a most zealous partisan for Caesar.

In 46 BC he was sent to Illyricum with three legions and defeated Marcus Octavius, a Pompeian partisan with a large fleet, for which he received an "ovatio".

Officially, elections to the Trois-Rivières Council are on a non-partisan basis.

Slave families endured depredation not only by raiding Union and Confederate soldiers, but also by partisan guerrillas, who were the most feared as they were the most likely to be violent.

They found the communities already victims of partisan raids and even came under attack themselves.

As a consequence, public confidence in government was a matter of great concern, and the differentiation between partisan assertions and reality had to be made clear.

The project had not only changed its original goal from a partisan platform to a citizen questionnaire, but it had recruited a previously uninvolved candidate to its cause during the election.

The previous band broke up after their gigs became partisan with some members wanting to play at the Republican National Convention.

The election is held on a non-partisan basis.

The 1998 presidential election was the first to be carried out with a non-partisan National Electoral Council.

Soon after Hajduk became the official football club of the Partisan movement.

Sole famously walked his men onto the field with quiet but steely determination, to the delight of the partisan home crowd.

The Kettering Foundation is an American non-partisan research foundation founded in 1927 by Charles F. Kettering.

In April 1945, he was a member of the partisan delegation that tried to reach an agreement with Mussolini in the archbishop's palace of Milan.

Local and Congressional politicians in Texas questioned if partisan politics played any role in the selection.

The Yugoslav Partisan movement was represented in the city.

Resistance was led by a NLA Partisan named "Walter" Perić.

The "German Christians" strictly opposed that election, because Bodelschwingh was not their partisan.

His ambitious reforms of the fractious Mexican military transformed the armed forces from a political partisan to an armed force loyal to the president and government.

In 2004 Richwood elected party member and local poet Bob Henry Baber as its mayor, although this was in a non-partisan election.

The contention surrounding romanisations has never been purely academic or in response to the needs of the foreign community in Taiwan, but rather clouded by partisan politics.

The Bush campaign asserted that the oath was valid because the president was conducting a partisan campaign event.

Active in partisan politics Carmichael was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1916, 1928 and 1932.

It was released in June 2013 under Partisan Records.

After the invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, he and a group of 32 other communist political prisoners escaped from the prison and joined the Yugoslav partisan resistance.

In 1942 he was sent to occupied Slovenia to be one of commanders of the Slovene partisan resistance.

The name "Demokraten" was taken in 1945, and the newspaper ultimately became non-partisan.

The unit participated in anti-partisan actions in Yugoslavia.

During the Second World War, the coal mine was attacked by a Partisan unit.

English:
literary magazine "Partisan Review" (Boston).

The origins of the JNA can be found in the Yugoslav Partisan units of World War II.

This revival was continued by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, a 19th-century Rime ('non-partisan') scholar and forceful partisan of Shentong, and were also advanced recently by the eminent Kagyu Lamas Kalu Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche.

Vis had been established as the Headquarters for the Partisan army.

During World War II Cansiglio was the seat of partisan resistance against the German occupation.